Views from the Margins (eBook, PDF)

Creating Identities in Modern France
Redaktion: Callahan, Kevin J.; Curtis, Sarah A.

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Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be French? What constitutes "e;Frenchness"e;? Is it birth, language, attachment to republicanism, adherence to cultural norms? In contemporary France, these questions resonate in light of the large number of non-French and non-European immigrants, many from former French colonies, who have made France home in recent decades. Historically, French identity has long been understood as the product of a centralized state and culture emanating from Paris that was itself central to European history and civilization. Likewise, French identity in terms of class, gender, nationality, and religion mainly has been explained as a strong, indivisible core, against which marginal actors have been defined. This collection of essays offers examples drawn from an imperial history of France that show the power of the periphery to shape diverse and dynamic modern French identities at its center. Each essay explains French identity as a fluid process rather than a category into which French citizens (and immigrants) are expected to fit. In using a core/periphery framework to explore identity creation, Views from the Margins breaks new ground in bringing together diverse historical topics from politics, religion, regionalism, consumerism, nationalism, and gendered aspects of civic and legal engagement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803218765
• Artikelnr.: 55971944

Autorenporträt

Kevin J. Callahan is associate professor of history at Saint Joseph College. His articles have appeared in Peace and Change and International Review of Social History. Sarah A. Curtis is associate professor of history at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling and Society in Nineteenth-Century France. Contributors: Kevin J. Callahan, Sarah A. Curtis, Anne Epstein, Rachel G. Fuchs, Samuel Huston Goodfellow, Stephen L. Harp, Sean M. Quinlan, Jeremy Rich, and Lee Whitfield.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
      Kevin J. Callahan and Sarah A. Curtis
1. Missionary Utopias: Anne-Marie Javouhey and the Colony at Mana, French
Guiana, 18271848
      Sarah A. Curtis
2. Marcel Lefebvre in Gabon: Revival, Missionaries, and the Colonial Roots
of Catholic Traditionalism
      Jeremy Rich
3. Marketing in the Metropole: Colonial Rubber Plantations and French
Consumerism in the Early Twentieth Century
      Stephen L. Harp
4. Exorcising Algeria: French Citizens, the War, and the Remaking of
National Identity in the Rhône-Alpes, 19541962
      Lee Whitfield
5. Autonomy or Colony: The Politics of Alsace's Relationship to France in
the Interwar Era
      Samuel Huston Goodfellow
6. The "True" French Worker Party: The Problem of French Sectarianism and
Identity Politics in the Second International, 18891900
      Kevin J. Callahan
7. Sex and the Citizen: Reproductive Manuals and Fashionable Readers in
Napoleonic France, 17991808
      Sean M. Quinlan
8. Gender and the Creation of the French Intellectual: The Case of the
Revue de Morale Sociale, 18991903
      Anne R. Epstein
9. Family Dramas: Paternity, Divorce, and Adultery, 19171945
      Rachel G. Fuchs
The Writings of William B. Cohen
Contributors